Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 17, 1910, Page 4

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REMITTANCES. { Remit by draft, express or ital order Sullnb!l—.c Yo '?h tbn pl’ubl.ld-hl!ni:(;\m:ng' nly 2-cengiptampe received in uoo&fl “ml 1 checks, except on omh of éastern exchanges, not a cmud !'rAl'mlINT OF CTRCULATION. Nebraska, Douglas County, #8.: Taschuck, of Col n) ‘being _dul; the actual I'mlnhk af full , Evening :l?u.nflly Bee rrlfitod Sur- lo“ lh. month of December, as . treasurer 42,630 48,770 43,480 42,450 u.m 48,810 43,930 42,370 42,490 WI' ' ii?fiiifi?iiiiii IM Average. GEOCRGE B. mcmrc& Mm Subscribed in m! before me this lllt rorn to Dfl.b‘l’. 1909, IDWY Publle. Subseribers leaving the city tem- porarily should have The Hee d to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. Yes, the loser of that $30,000 neck- lace was an actress. Money may melt the snow, but it also melts in the process. It may be called hard coal because of the hard feelings ana hard language it engenders. b ———— Perhaps the dramatie critic found dead in Biloxi coudn't stand such a one-night stand. It transpires that 'the good, old- fashioned winter that is upon us is playing no geographical favorite, The question, “Why is' an insur- gent?" is almost as hard a nut to crack as the question, ‘“What is a democrat?" Wyoming is worrled because the frozen country drnking. That is calculated to distress an elk, The recurring defeats of Mrs. Duft on Botson’s school ticket make one wonder whether she is the Bryan of the Hub, Some cities enforce a regulation agalnst coasting across street car tracks. Omaha would do well to do likewise. Indianapolis wants the Corn show. If Omaha is going to dispense with it, Indianapolfs will bc entitled to con- sideration. T It will be noticed, however, that the kaiser did not commit himself as to Shackleton's ability to reach the pole. No garlands. e — The twip brothers seeking divorces from twin sisters may be seeking a human application of the law that four of a kind beat two pair, — The | over the . Joslyn-Sutphen tract has n decided, but by no means gdqd——not #0'long as the law- yers see #.6hance for more fat fees. As a letter writer Dr. Harry A. Fos- ter is almost a8 much of a success as he is as a tooth carpenter. - We have some samples of his chirography our- selves. ¢ When Hstrada and Madris are not talking of fight they are talking of peacess. Why not get together and revive the languishing commerce of Nicaragua on a practical basis? When the inevitable thaw finally comes we may be able to measure the depth of the rich, brown earth which these dirt-hauling wagons are spread- ing over our pavements without let or hindrance. The excitement among the eastern colleges: over the hockey championship indicates that youth has not lost its 18t n the fundamentals of the highes' sdudation, young Sidis to the uutnry notwithstanding. keeps the elk from | | | measures prescribed by the open-air The World-Herald makes bold to say that there are hundreds of thousands of Insurgents all over this land, who are in- surgents not because they are soreheads or demagogues, or Cannon baiters, but fnsur- gents, because they are opposed to the measutes which Mr. Taft, ab the leader of his party, is advocating. These insurgents represent the only Insurgency that has any vitality, the only instirgency thal is worth considering.—~World-Herald. The democratic World-Herald's defi- nition of republican insurgency fis doubtless what the democrats would like to have accepted as the test, be- cause the only hope of democratic suc- cess lies in arraigning a considerable body of republicans against the repub- lican president and his administration. No other reason for insurgency will satisfy the democrats, because personal antagonisms may be removed and minor differences of opinion can be but transitory. The demoeratic organs have, therefore, been doing their best to lure so-called “‘insurgents” on to the point where they must line up with the demoorats agalnst the legislative pro- gram recommended by the president, and against republican policles gen- erally. It goes without saying that the lead- ers of the so-called insurgents at Wash- ington insistently deny that this is the reason for, or the purpose of, their in- surgency, and declare that they are fighting only against what they regard as & despotic system of rules governing the deliberations of the house. When men get into a fight they usually selze whatever weapons are at hand, which may account for the Pinchot diversion. The contest for political ascendancy, however, must continue to be between the republican party, represented by President Taft end his policies on one side and on the other side the demo- cratic party, trying to stop the wheels of progress And embarrass the adminis- tration in a desperate hope of improv- ing democratic chances for the presi- dential election of 1912. Back to Nature. New York, witnessing the apparent success of Chicago’s open-air schools in the dead of winter, is following suit, and has arranged to equip pupils of tuberculosis tendency with garments, foot-warmers and other bodily com- forts while studying and reciting their lessons out of doors. The Chicago en- thusiasts report that the innovation is enjoyed by the children and that their health conditions are manifestly im- proved, so much so that medical at- tendance grows less and less, while children who habitually lost much time because of staying at home to be nursed for throat and kindred troubles are now able to attend all sessions. The experiment is in too early a stage ‘to warrant any serious conclu- slon, yet it is gaining advocates among those who have long urged mankind to get back to nature in his manner of living. Some types of school rooms are notoriously hotbeds of diseese, and are the first source of germ propaga- tion attacked in time of epidemic. Yet it remains to be seen whether adequate ventilation and sanitation may not prove as effective as the more robust system. Many children cannot with- stand such vigorous reform, and there is grave question whether the raw and smoke-charged mid-winter air of the cities is as good for the lungs as the atmosphere that has had its chill and dampness removed by the scientific methods of the modern house. Even rugged adults sometimes are choked and rendered ill by the conditions out of daors, However, the success of the experi- ments now so ambitiously launched would tend to solve not only some of the perplexing problems of health, but also add to our general economical knowledge. Who can say that this is not a beginning of the abandonment of much of the indoor coddling to which we have made ourselves accustomed? Perhaps man is on his way toward curtailing some of the expensiveness of living by these steps back to nature. Vitality of Ci Man, the great imitator of nature, closely copies his teacher In the repair- ing of ravages, as is illustrated graphi- cally in the restoration of cities that have suffered destruction. Our own centers of population are a ready re- minder of this fact, the great fires of Boston, Chicago and Baltimore having served as a basis for the rebuilding of more stable and stately structures, and the case of San Francisco being a latter-day marvel of the vitality of cities. We are prone to consider that these phoenix-like recoveries are due to American spirit, but occasionally we are reminded by the old world that the principle is universal, Messina, to point to a recent instance, has just re- opened its anclent university, a signifi- cant mark of confidence in the future in spite of the wrecks of the past, and one of the indications that the old Sicillan port s again aggressively sharing in the world's commerce, Truth is, cities are hard to kil Slothfulness of public spirit, lack of munieipal pride and push, will permit them to stagnaté gnd fligker away into oblivion, victims of dry rot; but the municipality that is aggressive and 1 ledc Igland is successful in its sujt ‘against North Carolina for re- . covery on those repudiated reconstruc- tion Jbonds, the incident will be apt to cause uglu southern governors to ex- ténd the time between drinks. only (m-. Inkl g now s an n from Would-be Sen- renson 88 to whether he v.nu -t run a8 a "P’lulll’ or an “in., or slmply continue to be the preferred cundidate of the corpora- tions BEE freely from its docks as of yore. Fires and plagues and wars have devastated Venice, Lyons and even London, yet these and scores of others have risen from their ashes and their mourning and faced the future with hope and in spiration. The vitality of the ecity is a splendid testimonial to the dominant #pirit of man. Braving a Royal Volcano, Authorized affirmation of the be- trothal of Princess Victoria Patricla, daughter of the duke of Connaught, to King Manuel of Portugal comes as another proof of the Inveterate match- making ability of King Edward of England, whose niece is the bride-|' elect. Thus does another daughter of England march herolcally forth to wear a crown, heroically because the throne of Portugal is one of those set on the brink of a cratef, and the spouse of a monarch so parlously placed knows from the outset that the vol- || canfc eruption may at any moment terminate her ascendancy. Once before English royalty es- poused Portuguese, when Charles II wedded Princess Catherine of Bra- ganza, whose dowry included the pos- gessions of Tangier and Bombay, but as the union was childless, the blood of the two nations has never been tused. The welding of this new alli- ance necessitates a removal of the bai of religious difference, as was accom- plished in the ease of Alfonso’s bride, but such arrangements are only inel- dents in the lives of the creatures serving as pawns in the game of hu- man destiny. These marriages of English girls to foreign potentates extend the power- ful influence of the British throne among the nations of Europe. Hd- ward's daughter Maud {s queen of Norway's king, while two of his nieces are consorts, respectively, of the rulers of Roumania and Spain. His sister was the mother of Kaiser And another link in the chain of na- tions is his own marriage to a princess of the royal blood of Denmark. Man- uel's bride will be the fourth of the recent English Victorias to wear & crown, for that was the name of the wite of Frederick III, a fact which seems to have been popularly lost sight of in the current agitation over Germany’'s naval program. ' Like many another shrewd mon- arch, Edward has utilized the women of his royal family to serve the policies of the scepter, and Victorla Patricia but goes forth on such a venture as has thus far been succésstully sus- tained by Victoria of Spain, whose vol- cano almost engulfed her at the begin- ning. In the royal sport of ruling dynasties, it seems to be a case of & woman Is only a woman, while a throne is always a throne, [ ————— The invitation list for the “insur- gent” meeting called for Lincoln this week is being carefuliy guarded from the light of publicity. It would never do to extend a general Invitation to all Nebraska republicans who subscribe to the declarations of the Chicago plat- form and are ready to help President Taft’s administration carry them out. The familiar case of Jack Spratt is recalled by the decision of Cleveland workingmen to eat no meat and Yale students to buy no flowers. New Haven might ship the discarded “prom’’ decorations to the city by the lake, where the price of all greens is sure to rise when the vegetarian diet gets under way. P As the new president of the Com- mercial club Edgar Allen starts out with every promise of/a notable and successful administration during the coming year. At any rate, there is reasonable assurance that he will not arrange to remove to California before his executive chair is warm. Unable tmd evidence to substanti- ate the magazine charges of an organ- ized system of white slavery in New York, that much touted grand jury in- vestigation is in danger of falling flat. It takes facts more than hearsay to support indictments. —_—— And all the time that Philadelphia heiress wi longing for excitement away from home, a Philadelphia clerk was saving up his stealings from his empleyer to “go to Paris to see the pretty women.” Morai; There's no place like home. Those knights of the knuckle who are planning to add to the festivities of that safe and sane Fourth of July are too busy reaping in the nightly nickels to pay much attention to knuckling down to real work. —_— Mr. Calhoun has been so silent about it that the people had supposed he was in China by this time, Dut at the fare well banquet in Chicago he violated his policy of conservation of conversation. —_—— Judging from *“Bill” Brown's Jere- miads in the east about the dearth of farm products, “Jim" Hill in the west will have to look to his laurels, r—— What's the Uset Washington Post. Democratic harmony s getting a shave hair cut and shampoo, and soon ought Lo progressive, survives every physical at- tack and galns strength and character and ‘growth of population and pros- perity, not only despite but also because of the antagonism of the elements. Mes- sina is a fine example of this'trait. Its original excuse for existence, a port of call and shipment directly in the path of a short-out trade route, serves as well today, and the despoiled survivors of, the terribje earthquake, nothing (on ‘daunted, have flocked back' to their ruins and aré rehabilitating the houses and their fortunes, while ships ply be presentable. Getting Close to the Mark. New York Tribune. The latest confident estimate of man's age on the earth is from ®,000 to 100,00 years. Why not be a little more definite and say from 61,000 to 99,0007 L r—— tts Wlh (‘onriar—.lmnnl James J: HIll says in his latest article on “Highways of Progress” that America cannot compete with forelgners whose ships on the Pacific are “government paid in one guise or another and manned by cheap Mongollan Jabor. May the bumble OMAHA, Wilbelm. | MONDA \ landlubber inqiire whether the Mongolian labor employed on other transpacific steamers i much cheaper than the Mon« wolion labor employed on the Pacifioc Mall Line steamers? Cleveland Leader. These facts, obvious to any thinking man who will consider carefully the conditions which he knows exist, do not by any means cover the whole g Baltimore American. The American nation is the greatest on earth; none of us would for a moment permit that to be gainsald. And that Is national self-exaltation. We are a nation of megalomaniace; and we are nationally megalomaniacal. Why deny it? y M Escape. Philadelphla Record. Apparently Attorney General Wicker- run down the thief that stole his very Indiscreet sugar letter from his letter file. He should now get after the recelv- ers, purchasers and publishers who make @ market for such stolen wares. He should afterward kick himself. How Fares the Vietimt Brooklyn Eagle, Early has now been adjudged a ‘‘probable leper” by a committee of doctors and law- yers, members of the Soclety of Medioal Jurteprudence. The report of this com- mittee, however, has been referred to it for further investigation and report. The ques- tion of how to show mercy to this poor vietim of professional doubt remains to be settled also. Meanwhile, | Hurrying to Pay Taxes. « New York Times. Washington dispatehcs report a phenome- non, not to say a portent. The corpora- tion tax has been supposed to be one of the most unpopul taxes recently enacted. Possibly it was unpopular because of its merits, and ought to be dear to all who do | not pay it because of its hardships upon those who must pay it. However that may be, and although the tax Is not dus until June, some of the corporations which have been protesting against the tax are now hastening to pay it. The receipt of checks six months before they are due is not a matter so commonpla as to de- prive of all Interest conjectures as to what tha answar is Newspaper work is essentially a business for young men. OId men cannot last in it, because old' men cannot stand the pace. And the further truth is that when a4 man gets old in newspaper work, un- less ho has speclalized, he decreases In value to his employer instead of increasing. The younger you get in, the better it will be for you after you have acquired what- ever knowledge you can afford and are ready to take a chance. I don't know how to get out. I have seen ghoals of newspaper men get out into all sorts of Jobs, from business down to politics, and lots of them have made wads of money; but they never did belong, anyhow. The real writer never gets out of his game; and why' should hé, for his game is the best game in the whole world. i PRESIDENT TAFT'S FRANKNESS, Ideas Lald Bare with the Utmost Sim- plicity, New’ York Evening Post. Wo used to talk about the “appalling frankness” of \ President Roosevelt, but Mr. Taft is fully holding his own In that regard. In his speeches, as in his mes- sages, he lays:baze the workings of his own mind- with: the utmost simplicity, And in one partieular he manifests a di- rectness greater. than that of any prede- cessor, even his immediate. We refer to the perfectly straightfqrward way in which he notifies congress thit he has caused to be prepared the drafts of bills which he would like to see enacted. His quiet words are: “By my direction the attorney general has drafted a bill 1o carry out these rec- ommendations.” It fs highly probable that other presidents have done practically the same thing, but we doubt if any other ever announced it so openly. Yet Mr. Taft manner 18 so ‘calm, and his message is written 80 absolutely without heat, that we presume no one will accuse him of trying to dictate a law to the lawmaking body. What be ‘doubtless had In mid was the saving of time and the expediting of the public business; but he goes about it with & disregard of precedent which would stem sensational enough in a more sensa- tional president. OUT OF SIGHT—OUT OF MIND? Name of the Peerless Passed Up by the Showmen. Washington Post. The speechmaking at the Jackson day dinner in Kansas City strongly suggests @ tacit agreement among demoeratic lead- ers to lead the party away from the Bryan fetich. Nowhere In the comprebensive re- port of the speeches of Champ Clark and Representative Rainey and the lotter from Norman B. Mack does the name of the peerless leader appear; nor fe there any reference to hid polickes. So far as silence oan be accepted as indicative of a pur- pose, democracy means to live down its past and go into the fight next summer with & new “overshadowing question” and under the comstructive leadership of An- drew Jackson. Especially significant were Mr. Clark's words, “We meet under auspices more favorable than we have been blessed with since 189'—two years | before the “cross of gold" speech. Mr. Clark declared; that the overwhelming question In the coming congressional cam- valgn will be “whether public men are under any sort of obligation to tell the truth.” In other words, are ante-election promises things to be lived up to by the republican party? Or are they “entloing balts with which to eatch gudgeons? Ar- guing along on this lime, Mr. Clark's de- duction was that the republicans would get “the bloodiest licking they have had since 1890, Mr. Clark predicted victory for his party In 1912 also, with revision of the tariff still its Shibboleth; but he let fall no ut- terance that would betray his preference as to the presidential nomination. Yet his stand on the tariff as the paramount issue might warrant the presumption that he had Governor Harmon In mind as the strongest possibility now In the field. National Chairman Mack, {n his letter of regret, was equally studious in avoiding the use of names of living democrats, and harked back, like Clark, to Old Hickory's day for the policy on which all kinds of democrats can agree. Looking abead, Mr, Mack sees In 1910 a banner year for his party. “The faflure of the republcans to revise the tariff downwird, as prom- Ised, and the extremely high cost of liv- ing will go far,” he feels assured, ‘‘to- ward alding us in the elections of 1010 and 1o, Mr, Rainey, too, appears to have been “tipped off" to the new departure in dem- ocratic policy, and his remarks on ship subsidy never brought him within think- ing distance of the Nebraskan. The com- plete elimination of the personal equation by all the speakers suggests the idea that only & strict censorship could bave pro- :JA UARY 17 {rute. dueed a democratic symposium 50 develd of Bryssism. 1910. Ripples on the Ourrent of Life A8 Soen in the Great Amerioan Metropolis from Day %o Day. Pelham Manor 1s a romagtie, sylvan re- treat for merry New Yorkers—a near-sub- urb of the Dundee and Benson class. Lots of good people, well-to-do home owners, live there. Until recently the general re- pute of the locality rested on the rippling music of the name. Now it lays clalm to eminence as the home of a Sherlock Holmes in the person of Chief of Police Marks. Marks denles having reached the desti tion, merely heading that way, and this is why: Charles Melville was run in a sus- picious eharacter of porch-climbing talent. There wasn't enough visible on the shady fellow to prove his erookedness until Marks sized him up. “Let me see his legs,’ exclaimed Chief Marks with & mysterious air. Maelville's trousers were pulled up and his socks were pulled down. On elther leg were soratches. Chief Marks seized his magnifying glass and dropped on his knees. Tis just as 1 expected,” the chief sald solemnly as he regained his feet.”'Those scratches were made by aplinters of wood. The wood Is of that pecullar grain known to the bullding profession as ‘porch wood.’ This man has scratched his legs on porches. It follows he must be the porch-climber we have been hearing about.” “A bartender with a stunt is always a good asset,” said the manager of a Broad- way cafe quoted by the Times. “The fel- low who can keep a hot scotch In a blaze while tossing It over his shoulder from one glass to another In the mixing process, or who hands out the change with the coins standing edgewise on the bar, or who has any other tricks of a spectacular nature may be a bum mixologist from a sclen- tifio point of view, but he's always worth the money and he's the kind of fellow wé want. “There's one fellow down in Staten Ts- land 1'd ltke to add to my staff, but, un- fortunately, I can't get him, for he owns his own place and is coining money, I discovered him quite by aceident. I had some business down there last week and took a train to Weort Wadsworth. Right i{near the station I noticed a slick little place, -and feeling thirsty I went In for a | &l of beer. There were several sold- fers from the fort standing at the bar, and the Germen who was serving them was also amusing them by writing their names with a plece of chalk on the smooth surface of the bar. This doesn't sound unusual, does it? But when you take into consideration that from his position behind the bar it was necessary for him to write not only backward, but upside @down, you may get some idea of the Aiffi- culty of his feat. He wrote my name, and standing where I was in front of the. bar I saw him dash it off without any hesitation, and it gave me a sort of un- canny feeling to see it coming at me backward., A feeling that one does not re to repeat, “Well, we had twe or three, and I wound up by making him an offer to ap- pear on Broadway with an iron-bound contract. But he told me he owned his own place, had it all clear, was doing a good business, and, anyhow, he wouldn't leave Staten Island as long as the whit- ing and ling were biting from the plers at Bouth Beacl Plans for the world's fair to be held in New York City in 1913 have been launched here, The proposed exhibition wil eom- memorate ‘the three hundredth anniver- sary of the settlement of Manhattan Is- 1and. The promoters of the enterpriss have effected a nrelimirary organization and have taken out articles of incorpora- tion. No site for the fair has yet been chosen. Mayor Gaynor is smashing preocedents and shaking privileges in an awfully rude way. The other day two of his seven ap- pointees as tax commissioners were sworn in on probation. cate who the two were, however, in frankly addressing them thus: I had de- termined not to re-appoint two of you, but on caretul consideration I feit that justice required me to give you an opportunity, and everything had to yleld to justice™ The mayor again sounded the note of warn- ing against political favoritism. *‘Faver to no one,” continued his honor in admoni- tion to his appointees, ‘‘and see that your deputiés favor mno ome for political in- fluence, love or money. If political lead- ers come asking favors in veluation, tell them to go away. That day is gone by, Polities must be benished from your de- partment. Every deputy who makes a wrong valuation must be dismissed at onee. Try to find out some owner trying to corrupt a deputy and we will have him indicted.”” With the curt comment that New York’s beautiful Riverside drive “‘was made for all and not for a few,” the mayor issued an order to his new park eommis- sioner, Charles B, Stover, to take steps for the immediate resumption of the running of the big public stages on that thorough- fare. For a long time wealthy residents along Riverside drive Successtully objected to the presence of the cumbersome electric stages in that exclusive district. In of the largest retall grocers of New York, In an interview in the World, de- clares that the time has come for an en- forcement by law, if necessary, of lower prices of food products. He says: “I say frankly from my own knowledge there are scores of food products and articles in daily use in every kitehen ehat would be supplied at far less cost to the consumers if the wholesale and retall deal- ers were permitted to sell at fair prices. “Instend of this an arbitrary, artifictal high price is forced upon us. If we do not sell at that price wo are boycotted by the manufacturers. They will not only eut off our supply of goods, but they will Insist that no other desler sell us anything. It is this latter aspect of the case that is the most outrageous. “Manufacturérs of food products and combinations that control food products at present are operating as absolue monopo- lies. They are not content with recelving trom dealers the price they ask, but are insisting that they have & right to fix the selling price at every stage, even to the consumer. “There is one shining exception to this There 1s one manufacturer in New York who, against protests, will sell to whomsoever pays the tactory price, regard- less of how great or how small a vrofit the retailer attempts to secure. “If a womun goes Into the ordinary grocery id buys goods she thinks she is buying from her grocer. On probably one- third of her bill the grocer does not make one cept, but must walt for his profits until he recelvis rebates from the ‘men higher up.’ “It I8 strange there s so little legisla- tion upon the methods of handling food supplics. The public is largely at the mercy of the combinations of capital. In some articles the final pries paid by the con- sumer is reasonably tair, but in many cases it i ridiculous. “As & retaller 1 have tried to get the goods to the people at the least Dflflbh cost, but this cannot be done unitl the: |some regutation of the boycett methods.” ‘The mayor did not indi- |, 7 PINOHOT'S STRANGE DOCTRINE. His Parting Preachment to Clevks. Bpringfield (Mass.) Republican. Mr, Pinchot's sincerity Is everywhere con- oeded and his great services universally pratsed, but his conduct as an administra- tive officer continues to exelte bewlider- ment. The dootrine that bis fermer elorks, when saying farewell to them, polnts straight to administrative anarchy. He I8 reported as telling them never to ferget that they are ‘‘the ser: vants of the people of the Unffed States, responsible to them and to them alome.' “Stay by the work,” he admonished them. “Never allow yourselves to forget that your are serving a much than the Department #ven the administration.” In plain words, this Is the doctrine of insubordination. 1t it were followed ¢onsistently Into prac- tive by the thousands of bureau ohlefs it would_ be and .clerks in Washington, impossible to run the government. Ad- ministrative efficlency would be ruined by the chaos than 00,000 clerks country” over the heads of eabinet minis- ters and the chlef magistrate himself, wheneéver any of them felt that the gov- ernment work was not being managed In accordance with correct prineiples. The truth s that only by a curious develop- ment of megalomania can a government clerk maintain that he is responsible not to his superior officer in the bureau, but to the people of the United States. It f6 Mr. Taft who was electod president, that 18 responsible to the people, and his administrative subordinates sre —resnon- sible to him. 1f they disapprove of his policles, they should resign In case they wish to eonduct a popular agitation on the issue. But for them to remain in office and assume that they are the people alone,” rather than to the ap- with a smile. ——e—— PRESIDENT AND PATRONAGE. The Outloek, New York. When, Jast week, reports were published in & number of newspapers that President to punish those republicans in congress who were in revolt against the house or- ganization led by Speaker Cannon, most thoughtful readers of the newspapers must have regarded those reports with in- credulity. dent has shown through years of his public lite so high a standard of disinterested public service that no one of intelligance could credit a report that he would use his appointing power in any arbitrary way without regard to the fitne. pointee. In the secopd place, are known to be “insurgénts” against the oligarchical group headed by Speaker Can- non are not enemies of Mr. Taft's admin. istration or opponents of his poliey. the contrary, whether wisely or not, they have acted uniformly with a view of car- rying out the very policies for which Mr. Taft s known to stand. It is therefore no surprise of the ecareful reader that im- mediately upon these reports there followed what spems to be an authoritative state- ment of the sitwation from the president’s point of view. This, In substance, may be stated as follo Under the constitution the president has the power of making appolntments to some tederal positions, as, for example, postmasterships. It is nec sary, of eourse, for the president to taie counsel on such appointments, and it has been customary for him to call In con- gressmen - who are likely to know loecal traditions and to recelve their suggestions and advice. It is not, however, Incumbent upon the president to do so, and it can hardly be expected that he would call for such advice from men who are evidently out of sympathy with his plans and pur- poses. It is thus that the president states his pésition. No reasonable 'person, we conceive, can for & moment take exception W' this view. e SAFE FROM SHOT AND SHBLL, High Fiyers Presumed to Bs Out of Reach. Cleveland Leader.) French experts are quoted as saying that the recent flight of Hubert Lathan, at the helght of from 8000 to 4,000 feet above the arth, in an geropiane, proves that such flying machines can be considered immune, when used as Latham handled his, from the risk of belng hit by bullets or shells, in case of military service in war. it is a reasopable conclusion, as every one must admit who has studied the difficuities of hitting a swift-moving target half & miie or more above the ground. It would be great shooting to hit & mark the sise of an meroplane, moving at the rate of forty miles an hour, three-quartery of & mile away, on the earth, but when the target js elevated to that height the feat becomes practically Impossible. There Is nothing to sight over, no background to aid the gunner. The position of his ritle or cannon must be awkward and unfavorabie to quick aiming. He must cope with rapid and unforeseen changes in the position of the mark he tries to hit, not only up and down but In other respects. Its course may be almost as irrégular as the flight of & swallow. In mist or darkness the target would disappear altogether, It the aviators can fly 3,000 or 4,000 feet above the earth, and depend upon getting as high as that whenever they want to, they will be quite trom shot and shell. If field batteries or rifiemen showld hit thelr machines at all it would be the re- sult of mere chance. For that reason the aeroplane looms larger than ever as a pos- sible factor In the next great war, PHRMISSIVE ACCIDENTS, Do Maunagers Really Wink bedience of Sign. Pittsburg Dispateh. The inquiry Into the collision In York state In which Spencer Tiask, the banker, was killed, Indieates what was suspected at the time, that the acciden: was_caused by disregard of the precautions installed to prevent such Alaasters. Al- though the air was elear, the track straight and block signuled a following fast freight crashed into a passenger trafn at a stand- still. The evidence of the engineer In that notwithstanding the Instaliment of the signal system it was In effect nullificd by being made permissive rather than prohibi. tive. In other words, signale might be passed at the discretion of the cngineer. This system, he sald, in effect enabled the company to operate more trains on & given streteh of track. The investigation is #til In progress, but this evidence states very clearly a practice that must produce accldents. No matter {how exgellent the signal system may he or how complete its (nstallation its vaiue must be measured by the Individual disere- tion of the engineers if they are permitted (o run past a signal when they think they can do so safely. The main ldea of the agtomatic block was {o eliminate as much a8, possible the element of human falll- bility, yet It i again lojected, with the usual results. The best precautions possi- ble must be rendered wseless when modified to permit the very thing they were deo- signed to prevent, New Former he preached to geater master of Agriculture or lack of administrative discipline and harmony, and there could be no worse “appealing to the “responsible to pointive power, involves 8o preposterous situation that it may as well be dismissed Reapecting Taft contempiated using federal patronage | the | In the first place, the presi- | of the ap- | those who | On | PERSONAL NOTES. < Pogonlp, the new disease which has ap- peared In Pittsburg, Js likely to have a longer run than hookworm, on account of its superior title. Colonel Elijah W. Halford of Now York, Aistinguished soldier, statesman, journalist and mission worker, will be one of the principal speakers at the monster dinner given during the Pittsburg convention of the national laymen's missionary move- ment, January 2 to 2. Stony Wold hall, Miss Blanche Potter's memorial to her sister, Miss Martha Pot- ter, has been formally turned over to the Stony Wold sanitarlum of New York. This hall, with other bulldings included in Miss Potter's gift, cost §16,000. Mrs. Walter Geer, a sister of the Misses Potter, has given an organ to the institution. Bernard Kroeger, one of the sixt yhardy young men who, failing to upset the ernment of ‘Germany in 149, came to America and won success in wide enter- prises, dlew of the effects of age in the home of his daughter at White Plains. Mr, Kroeger was regarded as one of the oldest plano manufacturers in this country. Louls Smith, known the “Man ot Myste and supposed to have been & French nobleman, was crushed to death %a @ factory at Venice, 1ll. He had worked Just a week for the first time in the fifty- two years he had lived there. He was anfamillar With machinery and ventured 100 near a cogwheel, which caught his clothes and dragged him into the machine, Miss Anna Helnrichsdorff is the first woman 1o recelve an engineer's diploma in :?m-m Afier studylng four years in e Berlin Polytechnfc institute she passed the electrical englueer's examination and recelved the mark of excellent In each branch. Bhe has opened offices in Berlin and will now practice her profession as a means of livelihood. N ENCE PROCLAIMED, Sugar Trust Directors Pat Blame on Minor Employes. New York Bum. Tastea aiffer, but In the humble judg- ment of The Sun the most interesting chapter of the American Sugar Refining | compuny’s address to the public Is that Which the directors have entitied, with fe- Hoitous euphemism, “Litigation ~ Against the Company.” Such generous provision has been made by the management for the dissemination of this document that few amateurs of ‘the truly refined and delieate in the way of expression will miss the chapter on “litightion” or overlook its crowning passage, In ‘which the directors record their donelusion con- cerning what they Gescribe to be ‘stock- holders as “certain fraudulent uhderweigh- Ing of sugar at one of your several re- tineries:" “*Your board has no réason to belleve and does not belleve that any executive officer or director of this company had any | knowledge of or participation In this fraudulent weighing,” If the annual reports of great corpor: tions throughout all the ages are ran- | sacked, can aught be found more touching, more simpiy and beautifully concelved than this vote of faith and confldence? It |18 the verdict of the directors concéring the possibility of complicity on the part of any director or executive officer of the so- called sugar trust in the mopumental scandal. That Is what the courts are try- ing to get at, so far as the statutes of limitation permit. That s what the proposed investigation by congress was in- whided (0 discover, hat i waat tie people of the United Btutes huve wanted to know, about as eagerly as they have wanted Lo KBOW Snyiung in seceni sassharine history. When we consider the magnitude -of . the financial results of the conspiracy of the inferlor employes to defraud the govern- ment, the ingenulty, the persistence, the coherence, the audacity. of the system as already exhibited in the eourts and atoned for so largely out of the sugar treasury, we hesitats between amazement and ad- miration, What other great Industrial con- cern has the satistaction of-knowing that it has been served (by its servants in fn- conspicuous stations) .with & meal for dividends so magnificent even in its dls- regard of certain moral prejudices? SMILING REMARKS, “What do you understand ‘magnet- - lsm’ a8 so0 often appiled to an -mr- per- lun:‘lllyf’ agnotism,” replied the' manager, ¢ that draws dollars to'g: bo: insur. the fos Ives at otfice."—~Washington Star, “There {s one thing representat| With any hope of gents I the house of Washington needn't try success. What fs that? “T'o sexk the bubble reputa Cannon's houth,”Batimors American, "¢ which' Visitor — Come here, m: pretay littlo @it ape you? | CTers Whose Housemald.—'Sh, Mrs, Jimes! l‘rsnl decided ylt—blllc&‘o a The courty Record-Her- Youngw hll“LUHB . Bachelor—Heavens! Are #s that?—Boston Transorpt. o7 A8 hard ed—1 IIWI'I crack up my wife's Do you ever scold your hi nd d vekes, no! L-ask money. ' Buttaie Kxprege "1 foF mor “But, senator,” asked the reporter, “who I8 to pay the Oost of placing the country on & complete war footing and keeping it here 7" My dear boy,” said ‘Benator Lotsmun, it's a_ tossup betw-»n our posterity and the posierily of some Kuropean or Asiatic power, and really doesn’t interest us. Try one of these lmported perf h goool ¢ ported perfectos.’—Chicago “To what school do. those Duncsns whe walk aboul the stréets in Greek costume belong?" “Oh, they're taking courns In free publicilty Dealer. & post-graduate '=Cleveland Plain Myrtie—Papa doesu't avor, your calling here at all, Georse. ieorge can't be! Your & moment . since st walt till you .. 0 All right; emoke {t!—Lippineot: Mrnh llnm:irlmdd)—whl ald you mend your husband's coat ATt nocded was & Bubtonts Soior When Mrs. Outley—Well, the fact s, my hus- band married so yoHng he never learned how (o sew on buttonk—Hoston Transcript, RIPPLES FROM THE COLD WAVE. I love the good, time- Old winter hak been 1 love to hear thie slience When there's a blizsard 1 love to be snowed in all day When wild the temper T8 “Tis good Lo have one Gky 4t Moo’ ' But oh you chores! \ b&:wrm stunt el rewing; 1 love to wateh the mowing flake, 1 love 19 see them chase Bach other {n thelr downward flight, To see them Interlace, Aud from each bough hang gay festoons And thateh each loIlr hovel; 1 love to watch the fly’ ng, snowtiakeg— But oh you snow shovel! 1 love to tread snow-troddeh e " WEE And pavements smooth .- To hewr the frosty * rflncn, eranoh, erunch” Beneath me 1 10ve to breast s WIRLFy ale To anitf the air, (o 1 love to tread of snow hew-fallen— But oh you lee beneath it! 1 lo the er and s 1 = 1in Sdater ia ‘midet um“film Wk And every poet omm n."“b!'...“:‘y’ alt 5'4'}“?' “.“‘;2"" oW A By ‘who talls to la rh M sparklf lnnh you lluh b- Ik Bn Omi